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Old 14th Aug 2011, 22:50
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I don't think any 200 hr pilot should be flying an airliner.
You do know that LH, BA and others have been doing just that, quite successfully for decades? The USN and USAF put 200+ hour pilots into all kinds of situations far more demanding that level cruise all the time. Think of shipboard ops.

Flying time, if it is the same hour on autopilot over and over again, is just numbers in a book. The training environment is key to safety, not a whole bunch of hours. 20,000 combined hours didn't help AF 447.
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